August 2

August 2: The fruits of our parental labor. After some trial and error and several trips to the Romanian version of Home Depot, we finally constructed some blackout curtains that appear (knock on plywood!) to have thwarted our early risers. With the sun not setting until nearly 10 p.m. and then coming up at 5:31 a.m. (and beaming brightly through our full-length, full-wall windows), Lollipop and Giggles have been sleep-deprived since we got here. And cranky. And that means we’ve been cranky, too. But now, with some cardboard, wallpaper, duct tape, a sheet, some wood, a couple of screwdrivers, some stick-on clippy things, and the flimsiest hack saw in the country, we have blocked out the light. And then there was sleep!